SR - 71 Supersonic Blackbird How to fly the worlds fastest plane

During the Cold War, the US Air Force operated the worlds fastest
air-breathing aircraft - the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. It was a
plane which flew at the edge of space; so high that most other jet
engines would seize becau...

During the Cold War, the US Air Force operated the worlds fastest
air-breathing aircraft - the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. It was a
plane which flew at the edge of space; so high that most other jet
engines would seize because of the lack of air. A plane that flew so
fast that its airframe heated and grew during flight. A plane that,
if needed, could outrun missiles launched to bring it down.
Amazing stories of the Cold Wars ultimate spy planeThe Lockheed
SR-71 was a product of airplane maker Lockheeds Skunk Works, a
secretive project which came up with some of the worlds most
advanced aircraft. It was designed after the loss of a U-2 spyplane
over the Soviet Union in 1960 -- a plane thought to fly too high to
be shot down. The Blackbird would fly even higher, and at speeds of
Mach 3.3 it would be fast enough to outrun any missile fired at
it.From 1966 until its last mission in 1989, the Lockheed SR-71
Blackbird flew thousands of missions around the globe, photographing
military installations from China to Egypt, the Arctic Circle to
North Korea. Colonel Rich Graham flew the Blackbird from 1974 until
the mid-1980s, first as a mission pilot and then as a trainer. He
later took command of all Blackbird detachments -- in California,
Mildenhall in the UK and at Kadena on the Japanese